Cry Break

A cry break is a vocal break in a tone or note in a song. It is characteristic in the singing tone of Hank Williams where a note seems to break and start over again. There are notes that the singer sounds near to the point of starting to cry. It is a technique that is used in country singing. S ongs that deal with the issues of sorrow and loss are likely to contain cry breaks.


Famous quotes containing the words cry and/or break:

    In every cry of every man,
    In every infant’s cry of fear,
    In every voice, in every ban,
    The mind-forg’d manacles I hear.
    William Blake (1757–1827)

    Our missiles always make too short an arc:
    They fall, they rip the grass, they intersect
    The curve of earth, and striking, break their own;
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)